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Abortion, Guns, Racism: Is the US still Liberty's poster child?

June 30, 2022

The United States is bitterly divided over abortion and gun ownership. Is American democracy at risk? Our guests: Emilia Roig (political scientist), Laura von Daniels (analyst), Erik Kirschbaum (journalist)

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Emilia Roig, political scientist, teaching at Berlin's Freie Universität focusing on intersectional discrimination, 
 

 

DW Sendung To the point Laura von Daniels
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Laura von Daniels, a political analyst with the Thinktank SWP, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin
 

 

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Erik Kirschbaum, a US journalist based in Berlin, working for a variety of American publications. 
 

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